Rick's Daily Tips

Rick’s Daily Pick: Rove R2-4K Dual Dash Cam (front and rear)

Posted on July 19, 2025

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My “Pick” for today is this fantastic Rove R2-4K Dual Dash Cam.

Does your vehicle have a dash cam? If not, this handy two-cam kit makes it easy to install both a front and rear camera on it.

Once installed, these cameras will capture clear video of everything that’s happening both in front of your car and behind it, helping protect you and your family should something happen while you’re out and about on the highway.

Click here to check out the Rove R2-4K Dual Dash Cam at Amazon.

Picture of the Day: “Morning in Iceland”

Posted on July 19, 2025

Today’s POTD features an incredibly colorful daybreak over the tiny village of Hellissandur, Iceland. I hope you like it.

By the way, if you have lots of treasured photos of your own that you’d love to display in your home but you have limited wall space, a digital picture frame (#ad) is an excellent solution. Check them out!

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Monthly Tech Giveaway – July 2025

Posted on June 30, 2025

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July’s winner will receive this fantastic Ring Battery Doorbell Plus.

This little gem will show you who is at your door before you answer it. It will also record the video!

All subscribers to the Standard edition of my Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter have an equal chance to win.

Premium subscribers have two chances to win (their email addresses are added to the “pot” twice).

Not a subscriber? Just enter your email address in the form on this page. Once subscribed you’ll be eligible to win each month’s drawing – starting with this month. Better yet, opt for a Premium subscription for double the chance to win!

The drawing for this month’s prize will be held on July 31 and the winner will be notified by email. The winner will be selected at random.

Good luck!

Opinion: The Windows update process needs a lot of work

Posted on July 19, 2025

If you’re like me, there are probably a few major annoyances with Windows that sometimes make you scratch your head and wonder why it does the things it does.

One of the most annoying of those annoyances is Microsoft’s clunky ‘Windows Update’ procedure for Windows. [Read more…]

Q&A: How do you silence a noisy mouse?

Posted on July 18, 2025

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Question from Maggie: My computer is in our bedroom and my mouse makes a loud clicking sound that drives my husband up the wall when he’s trying to sleep.

I tried the instructions from several articles I found online about silencing the mouse in the Control Panel, but nothing works.

I believe it’s the mouse itself that’s generating the clicking sound. Do you know of any way to make it stop making that irritating clicking noise? [Read more…]

How to convert a bare hard drive or SSD into an external USB drive

Posted on July 18, 2025

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Hard drives and SSDs are dirt cheap these days when compared to the prices from times past, and SSDs that are large enough to actually be usable are now quite affordable.

That’s why so many people are choosing to simply replace the hard drives in their computers instead of buying an entire new PC.

If you’ve taken the plunge and replaced the hard drive in your computer with a larger and/or faster drive, you might be wondering what you can do with your old drive. [Read more…]